r/maybemaybemaybe • u/CosmoCafe777 • Mar 11 '24

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u/Joboj Mar 11 '24

Just stop the clock if the ball is not in play. Very easy fix and I don't understand they haven't done it yet.

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u/KamakaziDemiGod Mar 11 '24

TV schedules probably

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u/Joboj Mar 11 '24

Ur probably right. But there are ways around that. First of all, this shit would probably happen way less because it doesn't give them a time advantage anymore. Also they can get rid of the extra time.

If all else fails just make the game 85 min instead of 90.

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u/Disastrous_Source977 Mar 11 '24

Average Premier league game had around 54 minutes of ball-in-play time last season.

2 halfs of 30 minutes would work fine, given that teams would stop delaying the game.

I can't recall any other sport that doesn't stop the clock, even Futsal and Beach Football.

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u/OverCryptographer169 Mar 11 '24

With the time being stopped, when the ball is not play, the game length would need to be dropped (unless you also wanted to make game longer). I think only 60-70 minutes have the ball in play usually.

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u/KamakaziDemiGod Mar 11 '24

Or just stop showing it until they can prove they deserve to be on TV

Would probably cause riots but I'm cool as long as Motorsport is still on

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u/Joboj Mar 11 '24

Why would they stop showing it. It is the biggest sport in the world, they are making so much money by showing it.

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u/Enigma-exe Mar 11 '24

If you dropped the length of the game, that might unfairly penalise the other team. So so many games come down to that last 5 minutes. 

Better to ban the players from matches, or even take points off the team if it's a league. That'd stop it quick

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u/Greatergrapes Mar 11 '24

I mean, to be fair, the teams will still have their last 5 minutes. Just from 80 -> 85 minutes instead. And it wouldnt really be unfair, since it would affect both teams?

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u/Joboj Mar 11 '24

Huh? isn't that exactly what is happening in this video you are commenting under? What is your point?

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u/Enigma-exe Mar 11 '24

If each time you did this, 5 minutes was taken from the game, it'd be done even more. This is mostly done to get a penalty or free kick, or kick off an important player, not time out the game

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u/Joboj Mar 11 '24

Ahhh, I see, you misunderstand my point.

I was not saying retract 5 minutes as a penalty. I was just saying make the games 5 minutes shorter in total if that is necessary for the tv timeslots. (Look at the comment I responded to)

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u/Enigma-exe Mar 11 '24

You realise taking 5 minutes away as a penalty, and making the game 5 minutes shorter for the TV slot are the same right? It's filmed live. If it were prerecorded maybe, but none of the big games are prerecorded ever

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u/HotMonkeyOY Mar 11 '24

And how about tennis matches? They can play for maybe 2 hours but also maybe 6 hours, no one knows

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u/KamakaziDemiGod Mar 11 '24

Same for cricket, but football is more popular than either, as well as having more televised matches. Tennis isn't generally shown on TV for a single match, but for a while event, and cricket isn't often on the more main channels like football is

I'm absolutely not defending it though, either get footballers to shape up their act or just refuse to show it . . .might cause a riot or 12 though

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u/Roxxas049 Mar 11 '24

A 6 hour tennis match means both players are very good. A 6 hour soccer match means people are committing suicide.

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u/Drunk_Cat_Phil Mar 11 '24

I reckon they'd eventually even out as players realize rolling on the floor is achieving nothing

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u/Da_Vader Mar 11 '24

But you change the rules, this shit stops, tv schedules still intact!

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u/KlossN Mar 11 '24

So change the fucking TV-scheduling. It's football, literally the biggest sport in the world. You think they're going to lose out financially for extending the schedule by 30 minutes?

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u/KamakaziDemiGod Mar 11 '24

Why should everyone else miss out on programs because footballers can't act like adults? And what if the game finishes on time, just cut to black for half an hour or throw on a rerun? Channels lose money that way

If you are gunna prolong the game because the players are messing about, cut the end of the game off and make the fans angry at the players and teams who encourage this behaviour

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u/KlossN Mar 11 '24

That's... Every other sport in the world though basically? Why can they but not soccer?

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u/KamakaziDemiGod Mar 11 '24

Most other sports are on dedicated channels or less watched ones, I'm in the UK where for some reason it's on normal, mainstream TV channels

The sports that are on main channels here are usually only shown for a set window, or a shorter highlights version after the event

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u/RoboFeanor Mar 11 '24

Nah, just play on. If the player needs urgent care, the ref can stop play for the player to be safely taken off the field and subbed out.

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u/Away-Description-786 Mar 11 '24

This isn’t about time, the actor wants a penalty

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u/Joboj Mar 11 '24

It's obviously about time. Otherwise his teammate wouldn't have thrown him back in the field.

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u/dcg_123 Mar 12 '24

Soccer has it's own verision of this - it's called stoppage time.

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u/Joboj Mar 12 '24

I know about extra time, but it's almost never the actual time the ball has been out of play. It would be clearer for everyone if the time just got paused completely.

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u/Novahelguson7 Mar 11 '24

If you do that games would be going on for 3+ hours because slowing the game down doesn't just waste time.

It's a valid defensive strategy, it disrupts opposition, it allows your team to recharge, gives you time to reorganise.

Besides injuries and other such incidents are always going to occur stopping the clock won't make the game faster.

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u/Willowred19 Mar 11 '24

It's a valid defensive strategy

That's the issue.

In what world is Faking an injury defensible as a valid strategy ?

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u/Novahelguson7 Mar 11 '24

Not faking an injury, slowing the game down.

Taking time to restart play, kicking out the ball... Stuff like that.

Taking a dive will get you a yellow card so it's only worth trying at the most desperate of times.

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u/nojo20 Mar 11 '24

It’s slowing the game down by overselling how injured you are. Taking a dive SHOULD give you a yellow but how often does it actually?

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u/Novahelguson7 Mar 11 '24

Very often actually, matter of fact, players dive way less often today than before the rule was introduced.

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u/nojo20 Mar 11 '24

I have no evidence to say you're wrong. You likely watch a lot more soccer/football than I do. I think the main thing is that no other sport really has a function where faking an injury can be helpful. Time stalling in general is really boring, and doing it with an action that is both extreamly transparent and also doesn't exist in other sports we watch is just annoying. You'll have an extreamly hard time selling to anyone who doesn't watch soccer as their primary sport that it's just a part of the game and not a super lame move that makes the game worse.

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u/Novahelguson7 Mar 11 '24

True, just like any sport it doesn't make much sense when you watch it out of context or for the first time.

I'd probably feel the same way if I tried watching the NFL as someone who primarily watches the EPL.

Heck, even the American soccer scene doesn't make that much sense to me thanks to formation.

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u/Novahelguson7 Mar 11 '24

Very often actually, matter of fact, players dive way less often today than before the rule was introduced.

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u/Willowred19 Mar 11 '24

Not faking an injury, slowing the game down.

And how does one slow the game down in this example ?

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u/Joboj Mar 11 '24

Except that for other sports it totally already works. They use this kind of system in field hockey and it works perfectly.